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Genre : Juvenile Nonfiction
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Author : Jeffrey Carter
Release : 2003-03-01
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Understanding Religious Sacrifice by : Jeffrey Carter
Download or read book Understanding Religious Sacrifice written by Jeffrey Carter. This book was released on 2003-03-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a thorough introduction to the major classic and modern writings dealing with religious sacrifice. Collected here are twenty five influential selections, each with a brief introduction addressing the overall framework and assumptions of its author. As they present different theories and examples of sacrifice, these selections also discuss important concepts in religious studies such as the origin of religion, totemism, magic, symbolism, violence, structuralism and ritual performance. Students of comparative religion, ritual studies, the history of religions, the anthropology of religion and theories of religion will particularly value the historical organization and thematic analyses presented in this collection.
Author : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Release : 1839
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis Algic Researches by : Henry Rowe Schoolcraft
Download or read book Algic Researches written by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft. This book was released on 1839. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Release : 2011
Genre : Indians of Central America
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Book Synopsis Their Way of Writing by : Elizabeth Hill Boone
Download or read book Their Way of Writing written by Elizabeth Hill Boone. This book was released on 2011. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on papers presented at the Pre-Columbian Studies Symposium Scripts, Signs, and Notational Systems in Pre-Columbian America held at Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on October 11-12, 2008. The fifteen contributors to Their Way of Writing: Scripts, Signs, and Pictographies in Pre-Columbian America consider substantive and theoretical issues concerning writing and signing systems in the ancient Americas. They present the latest thinking about these graphic and tactile systems of communication. Their variety of perspectives and their advances in decipherment and understanding constitute a major contribution not only to our understanding of Pre-Columbian and indigenous American cultures but also to our comparative and global understanding of writing and literacy.
Author : Donald Bahr
Release : 2023-04-28
Genre : Social Science
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Book Synopsis The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth by : Donald Bahr
Download or read book The Short, Swift Time of Gods on Earth written by Donald Bahr. This book was released on 2023-04-28. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while William Smith Allison translated into English and Julian Hayden, an archaeologist, recorded Allison's words verbatim. The resulting document, the "Hohokam Chronicles," is the most complete natively articulated Pima creation narrative ever written and a rare example of a single-narrator myth. Now this extraordinary work, composed of thirty-six separate stories, is presented in its entirety for the first time. Beautifully expressed, the narrative constitutes a kind of scripture for a native church, beginning with the creation of the universe out of the void and ending with the establishment in the sixteenth century of present-day villages. Central to the story is the murder/resurrection of a god-man, Siuuhu, who summoned the Pimas and Papagos (Tohono O'odham) as his army of vengeance and brought about the conquest of his murderers, the ancient Hohokam. Donald Bahr extensively annotates the text and supplements it with other Pima-Papago versions of similar stories. Important as a social and historic document, this book adds immeasurably to the growing body of Native American literature and to our knowledge of the development of Pima-Papago culture. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1994. In the spring of 1935, at Snaketown, Arizona, two Pima Indians recounted and translated their entire traditional creation narrative. Juan Smith, reputedly the last tribesman with extensive knowledge of the Pima version of this story, spoke and sang while
